Various photos that I've been meaning to post for ages:


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I am soooo tired. I went into the Museum this morning, for the first time in a while, and I did an extra-long shift. We have a school holiday program running for three weeks that is all about bugs. Buggy, buggy insects. Creepy crawlies galore! Ick. There's lots of activities, a great display of mounted specimens, and lots of living specimens. ( Read more... )

Poll JUST FOR BECKY

I JUST SAW A GINORMOUS HUNSTMAN SPIDER THE SIZE OF MY HAND. TRUE STORY.

Poll Favourite Aussie animals

I didn't get any leeches on me in the rainforest this weekend. Mosquitoes and other insect life are another story, however.

I don't like being back down on the hot earth after a weekend up in the clouds.

I've been following with avid interest The Adventure of English, airing on SBS. However, tonight they explored the advent of Australian English ( Read more... )

I was just in the pool but there were some tiny frogs/toads swimming around, so I got out. I do not like to swim with amphibians. I wonder if the spawn and tadpoles have been in the pool the whole time, or these ones fell in from elsewhere ( Read more... )

Had lunch with etherealily  today, not in a Ladies Who Lunch way, but in a slacker student Subway way, and then as we left the downtown mall a giant insect flew right past us. We shrieked, mildly, and then Liz pointed out that the giant insect was, in fact, a giant killer beetle which was now attached to my shirt, and I shrieked, loudly. It made hissing ( Read more... )